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0 pointscrazygringo4mo ago0 comments

What dev tools has Google shut down?

Colab is still going strong. Chrome inspector is still going strong.

They've never released a full-fledged IDE before, have they? Which I don't count Apps Script editor as one, but that's been around for a long time as well.

I think it's much more likely that Google believes this is the future of development and wants to get in on the ground floor. As they should.

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egorfine4mo ago

> Google believes this is the future of development

This is hardly possible as this is definitely not the future of development which is obvious to developers who created this. Or to any developer for that matter.

This is a stakeholders' feature.

meowface4mo ago

This worldview is so bizarre and uncharitable that I'd be rather concerned to hear what any of your takes on politics might be.

I've played with Antigravity for the past 48 hours for lots of different tasks. Is it revolutionizing development for me? No. Do I think they want it to do that and are working extremely hard to try to achieve that? I think the answer is very obviously: of course. Will it maybe get closer to that within a few months or a year? Maybe.

crazygringoOP4mo ago

Agree to disagree, I guess. What you think is obvious, I think is false. And I think the rapidly growing success of Cursor is the proof of that. But I guess you must think Cursor is just a fad or something, since you don't see why Google would want to legitimately compete with it?

egorfine4mo ago

Cursor is obviously a fad (unlike Copilot - I'm not at all an AI hater, quite the opposite) and perhaps Google needs to present something to shareholders that will pretend to be competing.

None of that matters for actual development work.

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0 pointscrazygringo4mo ago0 comments

What dev tools has Google shut down?

Colab is still going strong. Chrome inspector is still going strong.

They've never released a full-fledged IDE before, have they? Which I don't count Apps Script editor as one, but that's been around for a long time as well.

I think it's much more likely that Google believes this is the future of development and wants to get in on the ground floor. As they should.

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egorfine4mo ago

> Google believes this is the future of development

This is hardly possible as this is definitely not the future of development which is obvious to developers who created this. Or to any developer for that matter.

This is a stakeholders' feature.

meowface4mo ago

This worldview is so bizarre and uncharitable that I'd be rather concerned to hear what any of your takes on politics might be.

crazygringoOP4mo ago

egorfine4mo ago

Cursor is obviously a fad (unlike Copilot - I'm not at all an AI hater, quite the opposite) and perhaps Google needs to present something to shareholders that will pretend to be competing.

None of that matters for actual development work.

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